The view from "Big Red"

From the desert to civilisation

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September 25th 2008
Hello everyone. So hard to get email/internet 'service' all the time. We spent the last 6 days at Copeton Dam (near Inverell NSW) - no service there. Very nice, picturesque, birds, wildlife, HUGE dam, no fish, very quiet, just gorgeous. All the towns since leaving Qld have been pretty 'ordinary' - Bourke, Walget, Colerenebri, Warialda - all seem to be very uncared-for and run down. We stayed ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Armidale

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more